Signature Wines The Coordinates Sauvignon Blanc 2019
- 90
- $20
- Drink by: 2021 - 2022
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From the Adelaide Hills, this is part of a good value range of wines from Signature. It is from a single block and the labels look a bit like you’d need an Enigma Machine to decipher them but no matter. Before I tasted this wine, I will say that interest was piqued as we don’t usually see Savvy with this much age as a new release. Normally they have about six weeks.
All is irrelevant. This was a delicious Savvy. Immediate notes of pineapple and passionfruit. Very aromatic with dried fruit notes, a little spicy, florals. Pleasant aromas, more enjoyable than I find with most Savvies. On the palate, there is some fruit sweetness, but it is that pineapple and those tropical notes that rise up and dominate. A pleasing texture and decent length. One of the better examples of Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc I’ve encountered recently.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
